The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-27
PERSONAL.

The Governor, staff and militia depart for
the Philadelphia celebration the 14th inst
Edward Paris, Esq, of New York, is max
ing his annual visit to Paris HILL his native
village.
Mr.. A. p. Stone, Superintendent of Schools
in Springfield, Mass, formerly of Portland,
is in the city.
Mr.. j. F. Libby, OF the Waldoboro High
School, has accepted the position of Associate
Principal of Brdgton Academy.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Brown are ON car
rlage drive through the central part of the
State. They were at Waterville Thursday.
Col j. M. Wilson, Commissioner of Public
Works and Buildings, Washington, ID. c.,
has been visiting Eastport the past fortnight.
Frank Milliken. brother of Congressman
Milliken of Maine, has been discharged from
the office of the Supervising Architect at
Washington.
A portrait of Mrs. Frances L. Mace, of
Bangor, is the first page illustration OF the
August number of Daughters of America, -
a weekly journal published by True & Co.
at Augusta With the portrait are selections
from Mrs Mace's poems.
Mr.. Freeman T. Merrill Grand Master of
Maine Odd Fellows, has been appointed chief
of staff under Brigadier General Sprague of
the Grand Canton of Maine.
Mr.. George Blanchard of Portland has
been selected by the New England Agricul-
tural Society as Judge of the Jersey classes
at their exhibition at Worcester next week.
The committee appointed by the Oxford
Bear Association at its meeting in Norway
last June to select list of officers for the
coming year have appointed among others A.
l.. Burbank of Portland to be secretary and
treasurer.
Mr.. Henry Kingman. Colby, "a, is visiting
his classmate, Professor Mathews, on Pearl
street Mr.. Kingman graduated this summer
from the theological school at Hartford,
Conn, and has chosen for his future work
the Chinese mission field.
Mr.. Ephraim Morrill,, of Berwick, for
more than quarter of a century engaged in
railroad work, and for long time the assist
ant to Roadmaster E. A. Smith, of the Bos-
ton & Maine, has been appointed roadmaster
on the Manchester & Lawrence division.
Baron Nils Posse, formerly of Stockholm,
Sweden, and graduate of the Royal Medical
University of Sweden, whose recent mar
riage with an accomplished lady of Newbury-
port, Mass, received extended newspaper
notice, has been spending the summer at
Hillside Farm, Sebago.
Mr.. VIM II. Burns of this city, formerly in
the employ of Woodman, True & Co., but
who has lately followed the sea, has been
promoted to the command of the three
masted schooner Minnie G. Taylor, mailing
from this port. He will sail in a few days
for New York, thence to the West Indies.
At the opening of the Supreme Court in
Bath yesterday morning Judge Gilbert ad-
dressed the court on the death of Deputy
Sheriff Patrick X. Millay and asked that ad-
journment be made until after the funeral.
Judge Haskell spoke Of the deceased in a
until today.
Mr.. Amos Hadley, the well known chief of
tie stationery and printing division of the
Interior Department at Washington, ID. c.,
has rendered his resignation, to take effect
September 80. Mr.. Hadley will become the
secretary of the Central Gaslight Company
of New York. Mr.. Hadley is native OF
Maine, was soldier from this State during
the war of the rebellion. and was called to
his present position by Secretary Chandler
in 1876. He has proven himself to be a good
executive officer, genial gentleman and a
faithful public servant. To Mr. HALEY be-
longs the credit of recognizing the station
cry branch of the Interior Department He
found it without system, he leaves it the
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